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Highlights

• Expected value

• Cause prioritization

• ITN framework

• Moral circle expansion

• Distribution of cost-effectiveness

Key concepts

• Expected value

• Counterfactual reasoning

• Cause prioritization

  • Cause neutrality

  • Cause candidates

  • Cause X

  • Less-discussed causes

  • Local priorities research

• ITN framework

  • Importance

  • Tractability

  • Neglectedness

• Other important concepts

  • Inside vs. outside view

  • Value of information

  • Differential progress

  • Risk aversion

  • Transparency

• Systemic change

• Effective Giving (see a full list of pages related to effective giving here)

• Curses and hazards

  • Information hazard

  • Optimizer’s curse

  • Unilateralist’s curse

Career choice

• Academia

• Ambition

• Career advising

• Career capital

• Career choice

• Career framework

• Coaching

• Data science

• Earning to give

• Effective altruism hiring

• Entrepreneurship

• Expertise

• Fellowships & internships

• Independent research

• Job profile

• Job satisfaction

• Operations

• Personal fit

• Public interest technology

• Replaceability

• Research careers

• Research training programs

• Role impact

• Software engineering

• Supportive conditions

• Working at EA vs. non-EA orgs

Fields of study and research methods

• Fields

  • Game theory

  • Economics

  • Decision theory and Rationality

    • Cognitive bias

    • Credal resilience

    • See a full list of pages related to decision theory and rationality here.

  • Epistemology

  • Disentanglement research

  • History

  • Information security

  • Life sciences

  • Medicine

  • Statistics

  • Progress studies

  • Law

  • International relations

  • Journalism

• Different approaches to finding information

  • Forecasting

  • Fermi estimate

  • Prediction markets

  • Impact assessment

    • Cost-effectiveness analysis

  • Red teaming

• Moral philosophy

  • Key moral theories

    • Consequentialism

      • Naive vs. sophisticated consequentialism

      • Suffering-focused ethics

      • Utilitarianism

    • Deontology

    • Virtue ethics

  • Non-humans

    • Animal sentience /​ Sentience

    • Moral patienthood

  • Cluelessness

  • Ethics of existential risk

  • Hedonism

  • Intrinsic value vs. instrumental value

  • Longtermism

  • Moral uncertainty

  • Person-affecting views

  • See a full list of pages related to moral philosophy here.

Countries and geographic/​political areas

• Important entities

  • European Union

  • United Nations

  • World Health Organization

• Countries

  • China

  • India

  • North Korea

  • Philippines

  • Russia

  • Ukraine

  • United States

  • United Kingdom